Solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight developed
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could...
'Flipping' the way college students learn
Some faculty at Michigan State University are using a new model of teaching, one that is “flipping” the world of higher education on its...
Food Safety and Bioterrorism Defense May Benefit from Improved Detection Test Developed at MU
Food Safety: Nanotechnology used by system may bring jobs and investments to MissouriCOLUMBIA, Mo. — Sales of chicken products in China plummeted recently during...
Researchers Devise X-ray Approach to Track Surgical Devices and Minimize Radiation Exposure
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have developed a new tool to help surgeons...
Smartphone way to lose weight
Your smartphone could be a key tool to losing weight according to scientists at the University of Leeds. Their study is the first to...
Researchers morph ordinary skin cells into functional brain cells
Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed...
Wireless "Smart Skin" Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure
Major bridge failures in recent years have focused attention on the need to monitor America’s highway bridges and other infrastructure. As thousands of bridges,...
New technology adopted to improve bladder cancer detection
The Keck Medical Center of USC is the only health care provider in the western United States to offer blue light cystoscopy, a new...
New tool promises private photo sharing
In the next five minutes, roughly a half-million photos will be shared online.Embarrassing or not, many are only intended for a certain audience —...
Brain scans reveal first objective measure of physical pain
For the first time, scientists have identified how much pain people feel by looking at images of their brains.The findings, published in the New...